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Chera,Chola,Pandiya:Using Historical Mining to Identify the Tamil Kingdoms Data Sets Within Larger Social, Poltical, and Economic Practices of Early South India INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 01, JANUARY 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 Chera,Chola,Pandiya:Using Historical Mining To Identify The Tamil Kingdoms Data Sets Within Larger Social, Poltical, And Economic Practices Of Early South India B.Devi Sujitha, M.K.Lakshmi Parkavi, T.Selva Gomathi, V.Anusuya Devi, V.Kalaivani Abstract: The main goal for this historical mining in the southern rules of India is to produce a comparison between the achievements and life history of kings in the same or/and different period. The need for data analysis in the kingdom of south India is useful to fabricate th e comparison of knowledge obtained from the mining in the pictorial representation. Then we are going to display our outcomes in the Archaeological Survey of India website and also in Archives and Historical Research of Tamil Nadu Website. Those who are searching for the king's information in the various links and books. Index Terms:Historical Mining, Data Mining, Kings. —————————— —————————— 1. INTRODUCTION The main goal of historical mining in the southern rules of 2 PROBLEM STATEMENT India is to produce a comparison between the achievements The kings and their kingdoms details are not similar in many and life history of kings in the same or/and in different period. website and book were written by various authors around the Historical mining offers a storehouse of information about how world. There is no comparison between the rulers in the same people and societies behave. The proposed system helps to dynasty and/ or indifferent dynasty. People who are preparing understand, the influence of technological innovation, or the for the recruitment exam need to have quick notes about the role that beliefs play in shaping family life. Knowing the stories monarchy information of diverse rulers. The cost of purchasing of south Indian kingdoms and situations in the past allows a books and materials related to our kingdom details are high in student to test his or her moral sense, to hone it against some cost. The surfing time on the internet for distinct kingdom of the real complexities individuals have faced in complicated information takes more time. There are no details of the kings settings. This proposed historical mining system is used to who are ruled the southern parts of India in the Archaeological collect the data which give the evidence about the families, Survey Of India Website. There is no particular information groups and countries characteristics and identification of the about Great Achievers and Rulers in the website of Archives culture about the kingdoms. It acts as a reference for the and Historical Research of Tamil Nadu. There is no data students those who are studying the history department. The mined result for south Indian kings for historical and kingdoms details are useful for the people those who are archaeological research students in doing their projects. preparing for competitive examination. It is beneficial for the people who are searching for the king’s information in the 3 ARCHITECTURE FOR PROPOSED SYSTEMS various links and books. This system is useful for historians to Data Mining is used to extract the information and patterns better understanding the ancient world. It contains more than from huge data. Data collection, extraction, analysis and thousand five hundreds historical data which related to statistics of data are the process of data mining. It is also kingdoms of Tamilnadu. The data are collected from various referred as a knowledge mining process. Data mining is a books and websites. The system will produce the best logical process of finding useful information to find out useful comparative analysis of south Indian kingdom. data. Once the information and patterns are found, it can be used to make decisions for developing the model. The following steps are included in the proposed method as shown ———————————————— B.Devi Sujitha, M.K.Lakshmi Parkavi, T.Selva Gomathi are currently in figure.1 and figure.2. pursuing.B.E( CSE) Degree at National Engineering College. TN, India. STEP 1: UNDERSTAND THE ANCIENT HISTORY V.Anusuya Devi is currently working as Assistant Prof. at CSE Dept. Understanding the problem is the key to assuring the success National Engg. College, TN India. E-mail: of a data science project. In this Southern Indian Kingdom [email protected] Analysis, the Kingdoms involved are Pandyas, Cheras, V.Kalaivani is currently working as associate Prof. at CSE Dept. National Engg. College, TN India. E-mail: [email protected] Cholas, Nayaks, Nawabs, Jaffna Kingdom, Pallavas, Ay kingdom, Sethupathis, Tondaimans, Velir Monarchs, Mushika Kingdom, Aravidu Dynasty, Vijayanagar Empire, Tuluva Dynasty, Saluva Dynasty, Chagas. STEP 2: GET KINGDOMS RELATED DATA Merging kings and their achievement-related data from as many data sources from Rulers around Early, Medieval and Later Kings related books, Research Papers, Journals, Historical collection data is 3321 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 01, JANUARY 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 making a Data Project. Microsoft Excel sheet is used to enter Reporting are presented in Portable Document Format (PDF). our Kingdom related details. The Structured data refers to information with a high degree of Mining data, such that DATA MINING STEPS TO EXPLORE DYNASTY DETAILS OF PROPOSED inclusion in a database is seamless and readily searchable by SYSTEM simple, straightforward or other search operations. The data are going to aggregate by using 12 attributes to emphasis the Rulers Achievements. They are Name, Dynasty, Capital, Statistics Religion, Period, Architecture, Timeline, Ages, Literary Condition, Foreign Trade, Cause of Death, and Significant Source System Era’s. It consists of 500 Kings details. Structured Modelling Data Data Mining Steps STATISTICAL TECHNIQUE Source System STEP 3: EXPLORE AND CLEAN OUR DATA Deployme nt The pre-processing step that typically takes up 80% of the time dedicated to a data project. In this step, the Statistical Source Technique is used to clean and extract the data from a large System dataset. Histogram Mean Median, Mode, Min, Max, Linear Web Regression to give the pre-processed data. By using Tableau ction Report Reporti Business Intelligence Tool, we can perform Visualization and ing ng Reporting. A Tableau is an important tool that helps in the Fig .1 Data Mining Steps to Explore Dynasty Details of visualization of data in different methods. It is user-friendly and Proposed System gives the results faster than other tools. 4 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS MODELLING STEP 4: ENRICH OUR DATASET MICROSOFT EXCEL SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word is a word process program used for writing It is manipulating and Modeling of data to extract letters, memos, reports and paper presentations. Microsoft lots of valuable features and to extract kings capital, timeline, Excel is used for calculations, making charts and recording period, Cause of Death, Religion from your data to get data about all sorts of business processes. We put data in the something more meaningful by using Descriptive Analysis. cells and group them in rows and columns. That allows us to Statistics are brief descriptive coefficients that abstract a given add up data, sort and filter it and put it in particular tables. data set, which can be either a representation of the entire or sample is given data. It uses Business Intelligence Process. DEPLOYMENT STEP 5: BUILD VISUALISATIONS It is a sound era to start exploring it by building graphs. When you are dealing with large volumes of data, the best way to explore and communicate our findings Fig .2 Steps Involved from Data Cleaning to Data is in the Graphical Manner. It is the process of Visualization identifying data that are similar to each other and helps us to understand the differences and similarities between the data. It is also called segmentation and supports the people to understand the details in graphs. The techniques are used here to represent our Data are TreeMap, Histogram, Box Plot, Gantt Chart, Word Cloud, Pie Chart, Bubble Chart used to display the analysis data. REPORTING Then the Mining Outcome is captured and displayed in the printed document as an electronic image. 3322 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 01, JANUARY 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 TABLEAU: Tableau is a tool to visualize and analyze the data. It is used to represent the user data in the form of chart and graph. Tableau can relate the files, and Big Data sources to get and process the data. It is used for business, academic researchers, and many government organizations for visual data analysis. It is also positioned as a leader Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms in Gartner Magic Quadrant. The user explores and analyses the data by using visual tools like colours, trend lines, charts, and graphs. PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT: It is a cross-platform PostScript-based file format. It is also an independent resolution format. A PDF file can depict documents which contain a combination of text, graphics, and images. These documents can support any number of pages as well as any type of format. It will help to generate an electronic representation of text. 5 IMPLEMENTATION RESULT AND ANALYSIS The figure.3 &4 shows the implementation results and analy Fig .4(a) Grouping of Kings according to their dynasties Fig .3(a) Some of the Attributes from Dataset Fig .3.(b) Some Of The Attributes From Dataset Fig .4(b) Count of the Rulers according to their Ages and Historical Era’s 3323 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 01, JANUARY 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 Fig .4(c) Count of the Rulers according to their Religion Fig.4(e) Count of Kings and their causes of death 4 CONCLUSION In the future, may extend our historical mining of south India project to the entire Indian kingdom.
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